intellectual exercise

For me, the experience had started as an intellectual exercise.

Computer games, it seems, are a form of intellectual exercise.

Asking the questions is more than just an intellectual exercise.

That would have made the challenge a job rather than an intellectual exercise.

It is never an intellectual exercise which leaves everything the same.

"There was not a lot of intellectual exercise in the creating the design."

"We don't want to just go in ourselves as some kind of intellectual exercise."

The rest of the time he was happy to debate, conduct the intellectual exercise.

But right now, it mattered only as an intellectual exercise.

"It sounded like an intellectual exercise to me," he said.

They don't live in the communities they're meant to serve - it's just an intellectual exercise to them.

But what he has done is an intellectual exercise in the research of Tchaikovsky's music.

To him it was just all an intellectual exercise.

He looked at his daughter and tried to feel the pangs, but it was an intellectual exercise.

Try to open up your emotions rather than treating this as an intellectual exercise.

For the Race, the latter was just an intellectual exercise, a study in abstraction.

Altering one's belief system is not just an intellectual exercise.

Until then, an architectural competition remains primarily an intellectual exercise.

You know that, but it's still just an intellectual exercise for you.

It also includes statistics that make the current recycling campaign seem like an intellectual exercise.

The question was entirely an intellectual exercise, these days.

Thinking thematically is in fact not necessarily an intellectual exercise.

"Design is not just an intellectual exercise," he said.

Subble ran through a quick series of physical and intellectual exercises.

He tried to relate her search to his, but quickly gave it up as a hopeless intellectual exercise.